Dr. Lucy Burns is a GP in based in Frankston just south of Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from Monash Medical school in 1993 and received her fellowship with the RACGP in 1998. She also has a diploma of obstetrics, a certificate in clinical hypnosis and has board certification as a lifestyle physician with ASLM.
Lucy worked in general practice whilst having her children until 2005, and then worked for the Department of Defence at HMAS Cerberus as a civilian medical officer for 13 years. During that time she noticed a large increase in obesity in the current serving members and the new recruits.
Dr. Burns has muscular dystrophy which impairs her mobility. In her 20’s she managed her weight with exercise. Alas, this is no longer possible and she found that as she got older following the standard low fat style of dieting was unsustainable and unsuccessful. She became overweight/obese and was insulin resistant.
Another doctor friend introduced her to keto and she was hooked. A year later she opened her low carb general practice clinic called 'Epiphany Medical Weight Loss'. Along with her colleague Dr. Mary Barson, the pair have also formed a business called 'Real Life Medicine' and have an on-line program that addresses both the physiological and psychological causes of obesity. Her strong belief is to empower people to manage their health through nutrition and the low carb way of living.
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14 responses to “Dr. Lucy Burns – ‘Menopause, Perimenopause and Weight Management’”
Yes gents, let’s not shy away from this one. We can all learn something from this
They should too because as Dave Asprey says, menopause is ruining your life in the form of your mother, wife, boss, sister….
I listen to many channels trying to put the puzzle pieces together. This is one of my favorites. I love your presentations, and those Ausi accents. Thank you for all you folks do. Much love
Hooray for cholesterol, I want to keep my body and brain. I’m sevety-one and I’ll never take a statin.
Yay!!! I’m 65 yo F with CAC of zero and cardiologist, head of dept in a major hospital recommended low dose statin. I said no thank you, and said that even if my CAC had not been zero I would not take one. I’m an LDL hyper responder. I’ve reversed my diabetes simply by reducing my carbs and all my numbers for my blood test are great (except the LDL has increased but I’m not worried about it, only the medical professionals are). My ALT has gone from 45 down to 13. I’m not going to risk messing things up by taking a statin. And yes, I have watched a lot of videos about it so I have made an informed decision.
Getting the estrogen out meant no more migraines. I really like not being in pain
So you recommend low carb and more protein? How about fats? I’ve seen a few who claim that eating lots of butter (and I guess fatty meats) has helped reduce menopause (perimenopause) symptoms. Does eating fat also help with hormone production perhaps? Could it be that the low fat movement is at least in part to blame for some of the suffering through menopause symptoms that most women seem to be facing these days? Thank you for this talk focusing on women of this age. It’s just a shame that young women may never hear about it until it’s hitting them. How do you target a younger audience to help them preventatively? Young women need to know how important this is!
Given the young women are buying into plant based and vegan movements, it will be a hard sell to get them to eat animal fats. I tell them they do not want to look like me at 50, so eat up all the cholestrol, but I get eye rolled all the time. Wish I’d known this important piece of info in my teens. Things might have been oh so different.
ABSOLITELY YES!!
Book:
“GOOD FAT IS GOOD FOR WOMEN”
by Elizabeth Bright!!!!
Lucy, this is a brilliant, bite sized package of information. I’d love to learn more in a detailed lecture, or even a book. I will be sharing this talk on some forums.
Thank you for this great talk 😊
Thank you!
Sorry, but why do we need to hear that crap that people used to die in there 40s all the time? This numbers are the AVERAGE age, and does not mean that we get older now, but means that the numbers of babies and children dying went down massively.
If you managed to grow up into an adult you could life into your 80s like today. But child mortality went down and that is why it seems we get older today.
In the last 150 years infant mortality changed from about 25% down to under 1% in Europe, that screws with the numbers. Nature would not have developed a system to shut down our reproductive sytem if we where ment to die before it.
I’m very disappointed. As a 60 yr female this video did not serve me at all.